The East Chia Sabz site is located on the bank of the Seymareh River in the middle of the Zagros Mountain chain. The site is among the few examples of the acramic Neolithic sites of the 8th millennium B.C. of Zagros which was archaeologically investigated during the rescue archaeological studies of the Seymareh dam. Numerous bullet-shaped cores were unearthed during the archaeological excavatio...

Artifacts are often found in archaeological excavation sites mixed with each other randomly. Therefore, classifying them manually is a difficult task and time consuming because they commonly exceed thousands of fragments. Thus, the aim of this study is to find a solution for classification of ancient pottery into groups by computer assistance. This is a preparatory stage for the next phase, whi...

In this demonstration, we describe a system for storing and querying faceted hierarchies. We have developed a general faceted domain model and a query language for hierarchically classified data. We present here the use of our system on two real archaeological datasets containing thousands of artifacts. Our system is a sharable, evolvable resource that can provide global access to sizeable data...

Fishing has always been an essential component of the Polynesians’ life. Fishhooks, mostly in pearl shell, found during archaeological excavations are the artifacts related to this activity the most numerous. Thanks to them, we try to reconstruct the ancient techniques of resources exploitation, inside the lagoons and offshore. They can also be used as chronological and cultural indicators. The...

archaeologically, the hybrid and mythological motif of people-scorpion, as presented in both forms of man-scorpion and woman-scorpion, in the horizon of bronze age cultures in the plateau of iran, merely, is reported from the archaeological sites of jiroft in the halil rood basin, southwest iran. in mesopotamia, the people-scorpion is presented as the guardian monster for the gates of dead peop...

abstract this article tries to look at the jewels of the ancient luristan (nowadays luristan province and some parts of ilam and kermanshah provinces), and to have a survey on this precious art and its typology. these jewels have been gathered by way of many scientific and unscientific excavations at last decades in the ancient sites like: kalmakareh, varkaboud, kalvali, sorkh dom, kamtarlan (k...